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Authors: Nagyné, Hokstok Kinga

Title: Agenda 2030: Future challenges in the context of the sustainability of occupational safety and health

Abstract: The study examines the sustainability of occupational safety and health in the light of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda framework, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by new technologies and digital forms of work. Significant progress has been made in reducing the number of fatal accidents at work in the European Union over the last three decades, but major challenges remain, particularly in protecting workers’ rights and creating safe working environments. New technologies, global labour market changes and sectoral shifts are creating new risks at work that require more complex and comprehensive occupational safety and health responses. OECD guidelines and international initiatives to measure the quality of the working environment are contributing to improving well-being at work, but their impact remains limited. Ensuring decent work and a safe working environment is a priority of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and an important policy objective in Hungary. Improving new work organization practices and the situation of workers on digital platforms will require particular attention in the future.

Keywords: Safety of workplace, sustainability, Agenda 2030, occupational safety and health (OSH), digital working

Cite as: Nagyné, H. K. (2024). Agenda 2030: Future challenges in the context of the sustainability of occupational safety and health. Studia Juridica et Politica Jaurinensia, 11(2), 45–55. https://doi.org/10.71100/STUDIA.2024.2.4

Doi: 10.71100/STUDIA.2024.2.4

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